German Hensoldt and Bulgarian Dronamics are teaming up to develop the transport drone Black Swan for military ISR. This is a big MALE type drone.
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“If things stay like this, we’re in a worse place now than before the war... A country destroyed; Khamenei replaced by another Khamenei, 30 years younger.”
#epicfury
"When I sit down and write something, I feel I’ve got somewhere. I feel better after doing it. Also, Rupert says I’m intolerable if I’m not working so if I wasn’t writing it would drive him insane." - lovely interview with Alan Bennett by @emmavj.bsky.social:
Der Iran verteidigt sich weiter gar nicht direkt gegen die USA sondern erhöht ständig die Kosten weiter - diesmal mit Drohnen, die ein wichtiges Öllager im Oman in Brand setzen.
Neue Leaks zeigen: Ex‑Außenministerin Karin Kneissl erhält deutlich mehr Geld aus Russland als bisher bekannt – u. a. von RT. Die Neos bringen nun eine Sachverhaltsdarstellung ein: www.derstandard.at/story/300000...
The due diligence report on Peter Mandelson's appointment handed to Keir Starmer warned about Mandelson's financial links to Russia, which he retained "long after Putin's annexation of Crimea"
Merz: "Wir werden mit dieser Partei (AfD) nicht zusammenarbeiten."
Hagel: "Kein Amt der Welt ist es wert, mit Stimmen der AfD in dieses Amt gewählt zu werden."
Kann man nicht anders sagen: Stabil!
This is no different from Putin saying MH17 was shot down by Ukraine or Assad saying rebels gassed themselves.
Do they think people have literally no memory of past events at all?
Oh, just the business vehicle of Nigel Farage masquerading as a political party breaching its obligations at Companies House.
This is interesting. But it is more interesting that Trump is rewarding Moscow for doing this by helping Russia sell oil, repeating Russian propaganda points, and senselessly burning through weapon stocks.
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How Irish electronic components are ending up in Russian attack drones bombarding Ukraine
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As if this week's news wasn't intense enough...
Global warming is now speeding up. Quite a lot, as it happens.
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Is it getting harder or easier to guess somebody’s party preferences from their ethnicity + faith alone?
It might surprise most media commentators that it is in fact now harder to guess party vote from just having ethnicity/faith to go on in 2024-26 in Britain that at any point in last 50 years?
🦇 Bats do not make nests, but choose various places throughout the year to roost. Bats roost in houses, both new and old but some species prefer hollow trees, or caves. In buildings they often shelter behind hanging tiles and boarding or in roof spaces.
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Important to seek clarity today on whether Home Office and No 10 will try to defend - or will now withdraw - a false+misleading claim applying settlement reforms to 2022-24 cohort saves £10bn
Not just overspinning lifetime saving in 30 years time
Gvt policy doesn't save maybe £8-10 billion of it!
Your regular reminder that the UK is in fact a high trust society and anyone who implies it isn’t is either selling you a pup or has bought one.
Historian here history first time as tragedy the second time as farce.
What I will never understand is....Twitter was *never* a good gauge of public opinion! I genuinely cannot understand the people who have clearly been using it as a measure of something other than 'internal leadership contests' (where it was genuinely useful' or 'ways to discover cool links'.
Der portugiesische Autor António Lobo Antunes ist heute im Alter von 83 Jahren in Lissabon gestorben. www.derstandard.at/story/300000...
Wunderbare Gegenplakatierungen, eben zugesandt bekommen:
Um Ayatollah Khamenei muss es einem ebenso wenig leid tun wie um Saddam Hussein oder Muammar Gadaffi. Ein totalitärer Massenmörder.
Aber die Bilanz von US-geführten Regimewechseln im Mittleren Osten ist bisher bescheiden. Aus brutalen Diktaturen wurden failed states. Oder wieder Diktaturen.
THIS.
Ein sehr lesenswertes Interview in der @faznet.bsky.social mit Ulrike Malmendier.
Wichtigster Satz: “Wenn Europa nicht stärker wird, müssen wir uns entscheiden: Entweder
werden wir Vasallenstaat von Amerika oder von China.”
Aber da steht noch viel mehr Kluges drin.
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"Paedophile defenders party..." - Kemi Badenoch 🤔
“Merz and his finance minister Lars Klingbeil are seeking greater oversight of the defence ministry and of procurement decisions …
They want to ensure that hundreds of billions of euros in debt-funded spending do not simply benefit groups such as Rheinmetall, …but also reach start-ups.”
Considered opinion of a few EU folk I've spoken with is that the UK has to have something to offer if it wants to be heard with regard to Made in Europe. And right now it doesn't. And worse, UK engagement brings back bad Brexit memories.
🚨🚨 BREAKING: Activists have attached Andrew images to the gates of Buckingham Palace, asking - Charles and William, what did you know? #NotMyKing #AbolishTheMonarchy #Epstein
After a meeting of the Oil Coordination Group, the European Commission said the Adria pipeline has enough capacity to "fully cover" the annual needs of Hungary and Slovakia with non-Russian oil.
Croatia is looking into the possibility of carrying Russian oil, but no decision has been made yet.
